YouTube Stars Defend Net Neutrality In Open Letter To the FCC (theverge.com)

More than 100 YouTube creators from the Internet Creators Guild have signed an open letter to the FCC calling on the agency to keep strong net neutrality protections. "Our rapidly growing industry employs hundreds of thousands of people and yet it barely existed more than a decade ago," reads the letter. "As creators in this fast-moving industry, changes to the existing Net Neutrality rules would have an outsized impact on our field and jeopardize our livelihood." The Verge reports: The letter has been signed by major names in the YouTube community, such as the Fine Brothers. In total, the guild says, the letter represents video creators with an audience of more than 150 million people. The YouTube creators directly address FCC chairman Ajit Pai in the letter. The letter argues that the removal of protections would lead to "the inevitable creation of fast lanes that would privilege the large media companies that can afford to pay for such service," putting smaller media creators in danger. "We strongly urge you to oppose anything that would threaten this level playing field," the letter from video makers concludes. "The stakes are simply too high for our democracy, culture, and economy."

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YouTube Stars...

[Frosty Piss]

Who? Wait, let me ask ky 13 year old daughter....

Re:Vested interest

[captaindomon]

Nah, they don't have a vested interest in net neutrality. They have a vested interest in Google, which has a market cap of 645 Billion dollars. They are "employees" of a massive company. They're not "the little guys" trying to get equal network footing, they're "employees" of one of the largest companies in the world.

Net Neutrality in a nutshell

[OrangeTide]

Net Neutrality means Comcast and AT&T don't automatically get a cut of Netflix's subscription revenue and Google's ad revenue.

That's how I would sum it up (I'm a cynic). And arguments can be made either way.

Possibly the wrong audience

[spiritplumber]

Right now, the country is being run by old people. They may or may not have any idea why Youtube content producers are a big deal. They are more likely to recognize "old media" stars.

Re:Possibly the wrong audience

[Anonymous Coward]

"All Net Neutrality means is this: ALL DATA MUST BE TREATED EQUALLY."

No, that's not what it means. What it means is that all data of a given type must be treated equally regardless of its source or destination. It means all voip data must be treated the same -- you can't give preference to voip traffic to a service you own or partner with over another service you don't.

You absolutely CAN prioritize ALL VOIP traffic above web traffic and ALL web traffic above bittorrent if you like. Net neutrality is about making sure all service PROVIDERS are treated equally, not that all SERVICE TYPES are treated the same.

you better mother fucking bet that the bits being transmitted across the country for life saving surgery need to be fucking PRIORITIZED OVER SOMEONE'S FUCKING EMAIL OR YOUTUBE VIDEO.

Yes and NOBODY disagrees with that.

Net neutrality ensures that it doesn't matter which surgeon is giving you life saving surgery; because all remote surgery traffic is top priority; and you won't get your traffic throttled if you don't use the surgery provider your ISP owns shares in.

Actual link to the letter

[Briareos]

https://internetcreatorsguild.com/net-neutrality

I know this is Slashdot, and I know I shouldn't have RTFA, but neither the summary nor the linked piece of clickbait fluff included a link to the actual freaking letter...